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Dum vs Dumbledore - What's the difference?

dum | dumbledore |

As an adjective dum

is cooked with steam.

As an interjection dum

is .

As a noun dumbledore is

(dialectal) a bumblebee.

dum

English

Adjective

(-)
  • cooked with steam

    • Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • * 2012 , Graeme Burk, Robert Smith, Who is the Doctor
    • I like to hang out with friends and travel the world. But if there's one thing I really love, it's Doctor Who''. ''Dum de dum, dum de dum, dum de dum. Whooo-eee-oooo dum de dum, de dum de dum.
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    dumbledore

    English

    (Bumblebee) (cockchafer)

    Alternative forms

    * dumble-dor * dumbledor

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialectal) A bumblebee.
  • * 1875 Charlotte M Yonge, The Daisy Chain :
    • Those slopes of fresh turf, embroidered with every minute blossom of the moor — thyme, birdsfoot, eyebright, and dwarf purple thistle, buzzed and hummed over by busy, black-tailed, yellow-banded dumbledores .
  • * 1899 Thomas Hardy, An August Midnight :
    • A shaded lamp and a waving blind, / And the beat of a clock from a distant floor: / On this scene enter – winged, horned, and spined – / A longlegs, a moth, and a dumbledore —
  • * 1970 May 21, Evening Telegram , page 3:
    • Now and then a dumbledore or ‘busy bee’ as they are called by some, propelled itself across our path, they being extremely large and heavy this year.
  • * 1987 Seán Virgo, Selakhi , Exile Editions, Ltd., page 20:
    • A dumbledore , lured from the plantation, lies on its back, leaping and churning upon Seth’s bright pages.
  • (dialectal) A beetle, typically a cockchafer or dung beetle.
  • * 1964 Transactions of the American Philological Association , American Philological Association, Ginn & Co., page 267:
    • Others may need to be informed that a blastnashun straddlebob is a dumbledore , that is to say, a polyonymous lamellicorn coleopter, cald also a dorbeetle, a dorbug, a maybeetle, a maybug or a cockchafer, a Mflolontha rulgaris.
  • (dialectal) A dandelion.
  • * 1975 Peter J. Scott, Edible Fruits and Herbs of Newfoundland , St. John’s, Memorial University Oxen Pond Botanical Park, page 39:
    • The Dandelion has a number of common names in Newfoundland. These include Dumbledore , Faceclock, and Piss-a-beds.
  • (slang) A blundering person.
  • * 1872 Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree , chapter 4:
    • “Miserable dumbledores'!” / “Right, William, and so they be—miserable ' dumbledores !” said the choir with unanimity.